Brandon James Art

  I am creating event posters for Harlem Week, a yearly celebration of Harlem music, culture, arts, history, and more that has taken place yearly since 1974. I wanted to choose an event that felt personal to me.  1. My first two sketches are 80's inspired. Inspiration for this one came from the old TV show, YO! MTV Raps . The background elements are not just squiggles, but classic 80's style shapes and designs similar to those here .  2. My second design was also 80's inspired. This picture serves as the biggest inspiration. The style of the font would be different. I would also want to incorporate elements of the city within the background of the circle.  3. Both of these sketches are inspired by the arts. On image three, the sides of the page are lined with tickets that say admit one. I would lower the opacity of these so they don't stand out. There would be barricades and a red carpet, providing an upscale feeling.,  4. The 4th image is inspired by music. Ha...

Typically whenever I’m writing or designing something, my sketches and the final look very different. This time was no different. I decided to go with the Horsemen and Herdsmen, as I wanted something with a lot of open space for my first Photoshop project. While I initially had ideas involving depth and scaling, I realized it felt too ambitious for my first project. I leaned into elements of my favorite animated movie, Alice in Wonderland (1951). I still played with scaling, using their famous potion as the reason I am so tall in the background. While I initially tried using the oil painting and other filters on myself, I decided to add some noise and other adjustments to the photos to give it a grittier look that more closely matches the original photo. I liked the parallel between the animated elements and the original painting and left the colors mostly alone, but I did add some drop shadows for a realistic feel. It was interesting to play around with depth. I used layer ...

Greeting's everyone! Excited to be posting my first blog post. I spent a good amount of time going through various works of art and ideas for this first project. I used a few different pices of art because I couldn't make up my mind. Using Elijah being Fed by Ravens, I saw myself and my cat, Boots, on my couch. For this photomontage, my sketch outlines Eliah now sittting on a couch. The branch remains, but the raven has been replaced by a cat. Admittedly, I am undecided about how this should go overall. I kind of want to leave Elijah in the same background and just insert a couch. Alternatively, I could move him elsewhere and create a new background around him. Next up, I used Trope l'Oeil of an Etching by Ferdinand. Looking at this simplistic piece, I was reminded of a Wanted poster. For this montage, I'd photoshop my face in place of that of the subject. I also really enjoyed The Annunciation. The body language of both of the subjects presented a conversati...